another way to chase infinity

If you find the gatorinator post on a platform that isn't tumblr, you can cause me mental pain just by telling me! "For poor ornery people like you and like I" If you have no content on your page I will assume you are a bot (derogatory) and treat you as such.

[mlerpwonders]

[vrabia]

the silmarillion is wild because you read it and you're like huh okay, and then you read lotr and it turns out everyone's just going around doing their own thing while the surviving elves are living through the final chapters of a post-apocalyptic horror story

[vrabia]

rivendell's a pretty chill place, right? everyone gets along splendidly. dream retirement home et cetera. solid chance the guy you're having afternoon tea with has either survived or personally committed war crimes. also the reason it's so chill is elrond has this magic ring that makes it so the whole place exists slightly outside normal time

galadriel's been around since the beginning, like, for pretty much all of middle-earth's history you understand, she has Seen it all and despite what you may have been led to believe is at all times this close to snapping. also the reason lothlorien is so chill is she has this magic ring that makes it so the whole place exists slightly outside normal time

i can't emphasize enough how much of a post-apocalyptic horror story thranduil lives in. homeland destroyed and half his people massacred. has fucken sauron in his backyard and the spawn of the primordial beast that eats light puttering about on his lawn. a dragon lives next door. does NOT have a magic ring and is therefore obliged to rule over his murderforest in normal time

just so we're all on the same page here, legolas' day job before joining the fellowship was to hunt the spawn of the primordial beast that eats light and it's not like, a big deal or anything. he just has to do it. he's used to it.

'elves are leaving middle-earth and it's so sad :(' they have ptsd samwise.

[taragrimface]

if i had three wishes they would all be to make web 2.0 utterly illegal and go back to normal html

[taragrimface]

how do we explain to children that all our tech briefly worked perfectly and over time we threw it all away for sleek menus and corporate opacity

[taragrimface]

"we could give you a link to this mp3 OR we could run it in a proprietary player app that must connect to the internet every time you hit the resume button"

[taragrimface]

when i upgraded from a flip phone to an iphone and realized i could no longer record and set a custom ringtone because apple wanted me to buy radio pop ringtones, i realized, oh cool new tech isnt made for us it's made to exploit us and we are going to let it happen

[serenity-bitty]

ouch

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @thelearnedsoldier

is... is this what happens in the Silmarillion?

text: I war-crimed my way into this and by Melkor I will war-crime my way out

[badpunktakes]

And dat's what punk is really all about

[drtrinitysantos]

sdxfcgvzdxfcgvhzdxfcgvhbjnkmlcgvhbjnk science

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

#the reason that lab safety regulations are the way they are is because literally all chemists are like this #as in 100% of them #no exceptions (via @prokopetz)

[frenchtoastcomix]

[they-hit-the-isev]

educational institution respecting students' free time challenge (impossible)

[digitaldiscipline]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Bluesky post from Kate McKean (@/ kateMcKean.bsky.social) reading: Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick /End ID]

[gamechangershow]

[shalrath]

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[quinn-of-aebradore]

@flashhwing EXCELLENT catch, oh my fucking god XD

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[theunfairfolk]

in elementary school i figured out how to customize the classroom desktop's autocorrect to make Word change whole sentences. this made it appear almost like the computer was responding to you. you could, for example, type in "where did i put my keys", hit enter, and watch it switch to "you put them under the couch". this was before chatbots, and we were all 9 so i considered it closer to a magic trick than a tech one.

i immediately scripted out a dialogue exchange between me and a girl who had died by the swings (classic). i invited another student over and told them i had found a ghost, then proceeded to type out the pre-scripted exchange. i was immediately pulled into the counselors office. the kicker was that none of the adults could figure out how i did it. i had to show them the menu and everything.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I do also think that many problems and frustrations in Henry Spencer's life could have been solved or at least lessened if he had put Shawn in a theater class or improv club as a kid

[909th]

if you fall from grace enough times eventually you’ll get really good at sticking the landing

[is-the-battlemech-cool-or-not]

— Rasalhague Dominion, c. 3151

[gargoylegf]

God has given mankind the wisdom and creativity to create instant ramen.

Give praise unto the Lord for he is good, and his mercy endureth forever!

[abalidoth]

guys check it out I'm gonna evaluate the limit of this rational function

[abalidoth]

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